The Enlightenment: History of an Idea

Part I: The Philosophers' Enlightenment: Thinking the Centaur
1. Historians and Philosophers: The Peculiarity of the Enlightenment as Historical Category
2. Kant: Was ist Aufklarung? The Emancipation of Man through Man
3. Hegel: The Dialectics of the Enlightenment as Modernity's Philosophical Issue
4. Marx and Nietzsche: The Enlightenment from Bourgeois Ideology to Will to Power
5. Horkheimer and Adorno: The Totalitarian Face of the Dialectic of Enlightenment
6. Foucault: The Return of the Centaur and the Death of Man
7. Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions: From the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate to Benedict XVI's katholische Aufklarung

Part II The Historians' Enlightenment: The Cultural Revolution of the Ancien Resgime
8. For a Defense of Historical Knowledge: Beyond the Centaur
9. The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy
10. The Enlightenment–French Revolution Paradigm Between Political Myth and Epistemological Impasse
11. The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem: From Political History to Social and Cultural History
12. What Was the Enlightenment? The Humanism of the Moderns in Ancien Reqgime Europe
13. Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution
14. Politicization and Natura naturans: The Late Enlightenment Question and the Crisis of the Ancien Regime
15. Afterword
16. The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Regime's Cultural Revolution?